Unit 7 Academic Vocabulary: Civil War and Reconstruction Review

Laws limiting rights of African Americans passed by Southern governments after the Civil War.

A local law or piece of legislation.

The forced enrollment of people into military service.

A person who supported the Southern cause during the Civil War.

A war between political factions or regions within the same country.

The civilian world in war time.

A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction.

A formally enslaved person.

The federal governments plan to restore the South to the Union after the Civil War.

To cancel

People who take the law into their own hands.

A person who supported the Union cause during the Civil War.

The date celebrated as the anniversary of Emancipation Day for enslaved people in Texas.

A temporary government.

The closing of a port by positioning ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out.

A law that made all Americans citizens regardless of race or gender.

A northerner in the South working for a Reconstruction government.

A law that abolished slavery in the United States.

A change to a constitution or law.

A law that gave all male Americans the right to vote in the United States.